The Spiritual Turn Av Galen (banting Fellow Banting Fellow Centre For Sociological Research Ku Leuven) Watts

Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as ''spiritual but not religious''. But what does ''spirituality'' actually mean? And what does this recent ''spiritual turn'' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies? Secularization theorists argue that spirituality lacks institutional support and a shared tradition, thereby evincing religious decline. Meanwhile, critical commentators contend that the spiritual turn embodies all of the ills of post-1960s liberal democracies. This book challenges these popular misconceptions. Combining cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy, and drawing from first-hand interview and fieldwork data, along with discourse analysis of best-sellingbooks, it shows that rather than reflecting religious decline, the spiritual turn marks the rise of an enduring cultural structure in Western modernity-the religion of the heart. Tracing the religion of the heart to the 1960s, The Spiritual Turn

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